Future of Open Water Observation Technology Workshop

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Day One: What is the state of the art in buoy and sensor technology? What can be measured effectively in the Great Lakes?

Presentations about the capability, costs and upkeep of modern technology operating in the range of conditions prevailing in the region. Presentation on the results of the Woods Hole/MIT Technology Conference.

Tour of Local Research Facility

Time	Topic	Speaker

08:30	Goals, Objectives & Workshop Logistics [Download Presentation (PDF - 5MB)]	Stephen Brandt Director, NOAA, GLERL

09:00	Advanced Sensing Technology for Marine Research: New Tools for Today and Tomorrow [Download Presentation (PDF - 5MB)]	Larry C. Langebrake Research Director, University of South Florida Center for Ocean Technology

09:30	Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) Technology [Download Presentation (PDF - 6.5MB)]	Thomas C. Austin Senior Engineer Applied Ocean Physics and Eng. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

10:00	Remote Underwater Sampling Stations (RUSS) [Download Presentation (PDF - 2.1MB)]	George Host University of Minnesota

11:00	Break

11:15	An Inexpensive Automated Lagrangian Water-Quality Assessment System (ALWAS) [Download Presentation (PDF - 1.6MB)]	Dr. Robert Shuchman Altarum, Ann Arbor

11:45	High Frequency Radar Sensing of Coastal Currents on the Great Lakes and IOOS [Download Presentation (PDF - 2.6MB)]	Lorelle Meadows University of Michigan / IOOS

12:15	Lunch

13:15	Introduce Afternoon Session	Stephen Brandt Director, NOAA, GLERL

13:30	Great Lakes region demonstration of multi-tiered near-real-time environmental surveillance of water bodies with Laser-Induced Fluorescence LiDARs and Spectral Fluorescent Signature analyzers. [Download Presentation (PDF - 9.6MB)]	Alexandre Vorobiev, Sergey Babichenko & Gary Williams Laser Diagnostic Instruments (LDI)

14:00	Passive Air Monitoring Technology [Download Presentation (PDF - 1.3MB)]	Todd Gouin Trent University

14:30	The Next Generation of In Situ Biological and Chemical Sensors & Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory [Download Presentation (PDF - 2.6MB)]	Thomas C. Austin Senior Engineer Applied Ocean Physics and Eng. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

15:00	Break

15:15	Multitemporal high-resolution satellite classification of submerged aquatic vegetation in the Great Lakes [Download Presentation (PDF - 1.5MB)]	George Host University of Minnesota

15:45	Detection of aqueous metals using a passive sampling open-air microglow discharge atomic emission sensor [Download Presentation (PDF - 1MB)]	Michael Zorn University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

16:15	Continuous spatial mapping from vessels: results and experience using various sensors for water and sediments in the Great Lakes [Download Presentation (PDF - 7.2MB)]	Jack Kelly USEPA Duluth

16:45	Summary of Day 1 Wrap Up and Adjourn	Stephen Brandt Director, NOAA, GLERL

17:00 - 18:00	Tour of Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory